This Aimee Leduc mystery focuses on the plight of Algerian "sans papiers" or illegal immigrants in Paris. Aimee, a P.I. who specializes in corporate security, agrees to help a friend and before you can say "illico" she is up to her neck in blackmail, car bombings, gun running, hunger strikes and hostage taking. The plot is a little hard to follow at times and sometimes just absurd (a preschooler takes down a presumed terrorist and wanders around the ecole maternelle with a sub-machine gun). Aimee gets shot once and beat up several times. Cara Black's Aimee Leduc series covers Paris a quartier at a time and I read the books primarily for their Parisian ambience. They're ideal for whiling away the time with a glass of rose on the patio.
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